USS Gearing (DD-710)
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_in_the_Mediterranean_Sea_in_1960.jpg) The USS Gearing in the Mediterranean |
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| Overview | |
| Type | Destroyers of the Gearing class |
| Shipyard |
Federal Shipbuilding & Drydock Co. in Kearny, New Jersey |
| Keel laying | August 10, 1944 |
| Launch | February 18, 1945 |
| Commissioning | May 3, 1945 |
| Decommissioning | July 1, 1973 |
| Whereabouts | Scrapped on November 6, 1974 |
| Technical specifications | |
| displacement |
2600 ts (standard) |
| length |
119 m (at the waterline ) |
| width |
12.5 m |
| Draft |
4.4 m (standard) |
| crew |
350 |
| drive |
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| speed |
37 kn |
| Range |
8300 km at 20 kn |
| Armament |
Second World War
Typical equipment in the 1950s
Typical equipment according to FRAM I.
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The USS Gearing (DD-710) was the lead ship of the Gearing-class on destroyers of the US Navy . It was named after the three generations of the Gearing family of honored officers in the Navy.
history
The ship was completed on February 18, 1945 in Kearny, New Jersey . On May 3, 1945, Commander TH Copeman became the destroyer's first in command.
The Gearing did not take part in any combat operations during the Second World War. Until the early 1960s, the gearing served in several peaceful missions in the Atlantic (for example an operation in the Arctic to test the ship's sensitivity to cold). In October 1962 it became part of the US naval blockade of Cuba during the Cuban Missile Crisis . The Gearing was the first ship to intercept a Soviet transporter.
In September 1963 the gearing was fundamentally modernized as part of FRAM I. Ten years later it was decommissioned.
The gearing was mainly used in the western Atlantic, the Caribbean and the Mediterranean.
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- ↑ USS Gearing . destroyers.org. Retrieved April 21, 2013.